"I'm unwilling! I refuse to accept this!"
"Ever since I, Liu Shi, entered the Council of State Affairs, I have exhausted my heart and mind for the affairs of the court. When have I ever known a moment of peace?"
"Others attack and criticize me, yet I still devote myself to governing. Even so, there are always people undermining me! Why has no one ever understood my painstaking intentions? I worked so hard, seeking only a name, seeking to leave my name in the annals of history—what was wrong with that? Yet the grand assembly of the realm that I painstakingly convened ended up in such a state!"
As all these changes unfolded, Liu Shi's thoughts also sank into utter chaos. Drawn by a strange will, they continually descended and twisted, and all the unwillingness in his heart erupted into surging rage.
At last, a speck of pitch-blackness was born in the depths of his heart. He abruptly rose from his chair, then his feet actually left the ground as he floated in midair. Black currents poured from the seven apertures of his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, finally merging into his entire body.
The moment the mutation began, Karma vanished and Fortune left his body. Even the Official Qi upon Liu Shi drifted away, while the Dragon Qi that had originally blessed him likewise faded from sight. Once these energies departed, they left gaps behind, and those gaps were now wholly filled by the black qi. It lingered around him, forming one cluster after another of bizarre artistic conceptions!
In the end, he landed back on the ground, his aura seemingly unchanged. Yet the Fortune around him was gone, replaced by a stream of black qi.
Naturally, ordinary mortals could not see this aura either, just as the naked